Conservative Republicans don't seem to understand how you can turn on a member of your "team" since they would never do that. They seem to be one issue voters and that issue, to them, decides the team.
Their world is black and white, if you support their issue you are on the right side, oppose it and you are wrong.
Most moderates and liberals seem to use multiple sliding scales. Each scale has a levels of support and anti-support. Liberals can be against abortion except in certain cases or even think abstinence is, yes, the only one percent fool proof pregnancy method but still think anyone who wants to use birth control should be able to.
We can believe that woman should get equal pay for the same work while realizing that, life, education, opportunity and talent may play a role in what everyone gets paid.
We know there are bad people out there who are people of color and bad people who are white. But most of try to take people on a case by case basis, but try to err on the side of trust before mistrust when we don't have the time to get to know people.
We know there are politicians and lawyers who try to help our causes, but when they cross certain moral issues we do not give them a pass because they are on the team. I think that is the hardest concept for Conservative Republicans to understand.
They don't get how we can support police officers in general and want every cop who murders someone, or abuses their power behind bars. It is too much work for them to separate the chaff from the grain.
They are the people who convinced the world all the nutrients we're in the peel of the potato so they wouldn't have to peel them anymore.
Damn. I wasted that "most stupid comment I've heard all day" meme on another comment.
No, "personally would not have an abortion" has nothing to do with feminism or lack of it. I'm going to leave out "dumbass" here because I'm just such a nice person.
Sorry, out of town & offline so late response.
I agree it's great to see so many women getting involved in politics in order to make things better for other women.
But I disagree about why Hillary lost. Trump's "win" did not happen because Hillary failed to be feminist enough. She flew her feminist flag plenty high, I thought, and I was happy for her to do it.
Like Robyn, I take issue with the idea that all women need to support all other women simply because they are women, which is where this started. (For example, I don't support Kelli Ward in Arizona simply because she's a woman.)
But at the same time I have no problem with anyone who chose to support Hillary because she was a woman.
During that first debate, and in that early big rush of campaign emails from Hillary (that came several times a day), implying that everyone's metric should be "let's finally have a female president" didn't sit well with me. I though instead let's play up how imminently qualified Hillary was. Not like anyone was going to miss the fact she was a woman anyway.
Obama never played up the "first black president thing," yet everyone had it on their minds.
This is where the concept of "necessary but not sufficient" comes in handy. It is necessary that women and people of color be elected to all levels of government. Because these groups are still experiencing oppression and bigotry. That's why it's necessary. But being woman/POC is not sufficient to justify voting on that dimension alone. It's really not a terrible thing to say that Obama being African American got him elected. If he'd been the same exact person only white, he probably would not have mobilized black voters as much. That's ok. It's exactly what this country needs- mobilizing voters. Politicians who make constituents believe they and their votes matter. I don't think they would have if bothered to vote if they didn't care if he was any good.
I went to a website, Amazon, y'all may not know about it, but you can purchase things there. Anyhoo, I searched for vagina, b/c if I were to have one, feminists all over would have to agree with my choice for movie night.
Like the writer says, "It sure would be nice to finally have a female president." The problem is that they all have those damn vaginas.
Conservative Republicans don't seem to understand how you can turn on a member of your "team" since they would never do that. They seem to be one issue voters and that issue, to them, decides the team.
Their world is black and white, if you support their issue you are on the right side, oppose it and you are wrong.
Most moderates and liberals seem to use multiple sliding scales. Each scale has a levels of support and anti-support. Liberals can be against abortion except in certain cases or even think abstinence is, yes, the only one percent fool proof pregnancy method but still think anyone who wants to use birth control should be able to.
We can believe that woman should get equal pay for the same work while realizing that, life, education, opportunity and talent may play a role in what everyone gets paid.
We know there are bad people out there who are people of color and bad people who are white. But most of try to take people on a case by case basis, but try to err on the side of trust before mistrust when we don't have the time to get to know people.
We know there are politicians and lawyers who try to help our causes, but when they cross certain moral issues we do not give them a pass because they are on the team. I think that is the hardest concept for Conservative Republicans to understand.
They don't get how we can support police officers in general and want every cop who murders someone, or abuses their power behind bars. It is too much work for them to separate the chaff from the grain.
They are the people who convinced the world all the nutrients we're in the peel of the potato so they wouldn't have to peel them anymore.
Deal with it!
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If your co-worker stuck to reading Buckley's stuff, at least he/she wouldn't have picked up that stupid accent.
It's to be devoutly hoped that we ask permission from our husbands or fathers before "playing into a narrative."
There you go again. Playing into a narrative.
And then there were the Berniebros who insisted that they weren't sexist because "I just love Elizabeth Warren."
Double first cousins to the supporters of legal segregation in the 1960s who were totally not racist -- they'd seen Sidney Poitier movies.
Damn. I wasted that "most stupid comment I've heard all day" meme on another comment.
No, "personally would not have an abortion" has nothing to do with feminism or lack of it. I'm going to leave out "dumbass" here because I'm just such a nice person.
Again? lol
Sorry, out of town & offline so late response.
I agree it's great to see so many women getting involved in politics in order to make things better for other women.
But I disagree about why Hillary lost. Trump's "win" did not happen because Hillary failed to be feminist enough. She flew her feminist flag plenty high, I thought, and I was happy for her to do it.
Like Robyn, I take issue with the idea that all women need to support all other women simply because they are women, which is where this started. (For example, I don't support Kelli Ward in Arizona simply because she's a woman.)
But at the same time I have no problem with anyone who chose to support Hillary because she was a woman.
During that first debate, and in that early big rush of campaign emails from Hillary (that came several times a day), implying that everyone's metric should be "let's finally have a female president" didn't sit well with me. I though instead let's play up how imminently qualified Hillary was. Not like anyone was going to miss the fact she was a woman anyway.
Obama never played up the "first black president thing," yet everyone had it on their minds.
OK, oxygen, too. My bad.
Oops.
This is where the concept of "necessary but not sufficient" comes in handy. It is necessary that women and people of color be elected to all levels of government. Because these groups are still experiencing oppression and bigotry. That's why it's necessary. But being woman/POC is not sufficient to justify voting on that dimension alone. It's really not a terrible thing to say that Obama being African American got him elected. If he'd been the same exact person only white, he probably would not have mobilized black voters as much. That's ok. It's exactly what this country needs- mobilizing voters. Politicians who make constituents believe they and their votes matter. I don't think they would have if bothered to vote if they didn't care if he was any good.
I went to a website, Amazon, y'all may not know about it, but you can purchase things there. Anyhoo, I searched for vagina, b/c if I were to have one, feminists all over would have to agree with my choice for movie night.
Damn, there's a lot of vaginas on Amazon one can buy. https://www.youtube.com/wat...
And like many feminists, she preached the message that the vacuum cleaner will set you free.
Geometry, the nicest math.